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REPRESENTATIVES IN U.S, ' Powers and Stone, Inc, New York and Chicago, THIET SATURDAY, MARCH 9, 1929 ------ OSHAWA'S TAX RATE For the second successive year, the Oshawa ; city couneil has been able to effect a reduction in tho city's tax rate, Last year, half a mill was taken from the rate but the 1929 council has been able to reduce it by one and a half mills: more, thanks to the co-operation of the board of educa- tion, and the rate now stands at 42 mills on the dollar, v While mapy citizens will regret that the much- desired reduction to forty mills: was not possible, it will be admit.ed that the reduction is a sub- stantial one, and is a goodly step towards the forty mill mark, There is one factor, however, which should be observed in discussing the lower tax rate, and that is the fact that the reduction was made pos- sible In spite of the fact that none of the city council committees reduced their estimates, The reduciion of the school rate to 20 mills on the dollar from the figure of 21.6 mills of last year was ontirely responsible, Thus it would seem that the city council committees did not show the spirit of co-operation in tax reductiom that might have been expected. Of course, a rapidly growing city like Oshawa must always find tax reduction a difficult task. It has expenditures which are not necessary in ciiies which are stabilized in population, and which have reached a static period in their development. Such a condition, however, is by no means de- sirable for Oshawa, and the high tax rate is one of the responsibilities imposed on its citizens by the rapid progress being made by the city, This growth, however, is helping to reduce the burdens of taxation on the individual, since it has increased the assessment to such an extent that the council, by having additional revenues at its disposal, waé able to figure its estimated expendi- tures without any increase in the tax rate, On the whole, however, after taking all factors into consideration, the people of Oshawa should be well satisfied to have the one and a half mill reduction in the tax rate, and if it is followed by further efforts at reduction in the next year or two, the rate will, in that time, probably come below the forty mill mark, Examples of the difficulties which municipal councils have in reducing their tax rates will be found in a summary which appears on another page in this issue of The Times, In its summary it will be found that, with the exception of Niagara Falls, Oshawa has made the largest re. duction of all the cities mentioned, And the Niagara Falls reduction of four mills was not a natural one, since last year the rate had to be increased by 2.9 mills to meet a deficit from 1927, so that in that case it was merely a readjustment of the rate, Thus, in comparison with other ciifes, Oshawa has done well to secure a reduc. tion of one and a half mills, GOOD TRAINING The city of Chatham is being made the scene of an interesting experiment in the training of boys, Some of the senior school boys of that city are being appointed as special "traffic offi- cers," their duties being to safeguard the little children on their way to and from school, They are being instructed in their work by the Chief of Police, and already its effects are being felt. It is not only in the present bepefits of their work that these boys will find their training use- ful. It would be only natural that the lessons in safety which they are now learning will remain in their minds in later years, and they will grow up imbued with the ideals of safety first at all times, This is a valuble training, and it should be more widespread, for men who have their minds train. ed to safety are hardly likely to be guilty of se~ tions which will bring their own lives and the lives of others into danger. SHOULD ALDERMEN BE PAID? The city of Peterboro is in a turmoil because the aldermen, at a recent council meeting, voted themselves & sdlary of $5.00 for every meeting attended during the year, A straw vote being taken by the Peterboro Examiner, shows that the citizens who have voted in it are practically unani- mous in their condemnation of the coungi for this generosity to itself. The Peterboro situation raised the question as io whether eity councils should be paid, and many arguments can be advanced for and against. It might be said that the community should mot expect citizens to give their time, epergy and ability for the management of civie affairs wilh out beirg willing to remunerate them. On the 'in service for the town, other hand, there 1s the argument that every citi- gen owes a duty to the community which provides him with a lving, and that, if he has the Allis to serve, he should be willing to give his j freely for this purpose. The chief trouble in Peterboro, however, is {that the council members voted themselves sal- aries without, taking the trouble to comsult the people on the subject, This was a mistake. The citizens should have the right to say whether or not they are willing to allow remuneration to those who serve them. In many communities, there would be no difficulty in securing consent | to such a proposal, but it is always dangerous for men in public offices to vote money for theme selves without having a direct mandate from the people to do so. JUST RETRIBUTION Leon Trotsky, man without a country, and des- pised and rejected by every place to which he seeks to turn, is reaping the just retribution for the acts which characterized his activities as chief of the army of Soviet Russia, BExiled from his 'own country, now in Turkey, a country which does not want him, he has no place in which he can find a hospitable refuge. Germany has turned a deaf ear to his pleas, and even Czecho-Slovakia has refused him a place in which he can spend his last days. The Trotsky of today, a sick and broken man, is far from the dictator who held Russia under a rod of iron, who spread bloodshed and rapine throughout the country, and was utterly mercl- less to those who were in his power, At that period of his career, human life and suffering meant nothing to him in seeking the furtherance of his own ends, and he is now reaping the har- vest, He is learning a terrible lesson, the lesson that those who give no mercy can expect to receive none, that those who persecute others who are in their power can only expect similar treatment when they themselves are in need of kindness and mercy, - There is a just retribution for those who deal unjustly with their fellow men, and Trotsky is feeling that retribution in full force in his days of trouble and sickness. EDITORIAL NOTES The degree of poverty that pinches is the one degree by which a man is poorer than his neigh- bours. Happiness is that indifference to happiness which is the reward of being too busy to think very much about it, The youngest melber of the Hoover cabinet is 51 years of age, which is 'a hard knock for the theory that a man should retire at 45. The people of Oshawa having been satisfied that the March lion really has a roar, perhaps he will go back to his jungle again. An archaeologist says that the first instrument invented by man was a hammer, And the world's knockers have been working it overtime ever since, There is always a good deal of sleeping sick. ness in any community--about seven o'clock on a stormy, winter morning. At that time it makes most people sick to even think of getting up. « Other Editors' Comment ~ A SABBATH GLUT (London Sunday Express) Scottish herring fishers, who refuse on religious grounds to fish or even bring in their fish on Sun- day, find that when they come to Yarmouth and Lowestoft the English fisherman with no such strict Sabbatarian principles beat them in the market. Pro- test meetings have been held. One resolution passed MAPLE SUGAR (Sherbrooke Tribune) Though the maple sugar industry is barely devel oped in certain parts of Canada, it is very important in Quebec's wide territory, as in certain districts of the Provinces of Ontario, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia, The number of those now manufacture fuaple sugar in Canada is estimated at more than NOT YET ON THE MAP (Victoria Colonist) Vancouver, which is voting some $80,000 this year for publicity, purposes, might spend a few dollars of it in New York to let New Yorkers know there is such a place. A New York paper, in alluding to Percy Williams' feats, says: eT e young Canadian is a sensation, and well he might be, as he ste from the backwoods of Northwest Canada into fame with a dual victory at the 1928 Olympic games." Evi- dently Vancouver has still a lot to learn about put- ting herself on the map, r--------------------a PUBLIC SERVICE (Fergus News-Record) When an Orangeville newspaper attacked a deci- sion of the council, the Mayor made a heated reply. He claimed the editor had never spent five minutes That is obviously absurd, It is doubtful of any editor should take many public offices, but they all do 2 great deal of work A their communities, year after year, thr their news- papers. They have to attend council meetings just 8s regularly as the elected members and are usually more Llosely in touch with municipal affairs. Not only that, but the average editor ts his town week after week and many a community gets more advertising thr its newspaper than through the combined work of its whole council, » « Bits of Verse - - HOW MANY DREAMS How many dreams for a penny? Dreams are poor fare for many. "Flour and seit," said the grocer, "Herring and dflls--" In a purple fen the fireflies hover . around a silver lotus, "Dreams pay no bills."...... "Clover and corn," said the farmer, "Horses and kine" i Ripples of silver sequins on lazy waters tease the drowsy pools' unwinking amber eyes. "Dreams teed no swine." How many dreams for a penny? , Dreams are poor fare for many. ~Maud E. Uschold in The Saturday Review of Literature, Hon, Hugh Guthrie demands that take action in impending economic clash with the United States. That there will be a clash, Sir Hugh is far-sighted enough to know, and in forwarning Cana- dians through the budget debate, coupled with a statement branding the government for lack of courage to stand on its own feet, in this mat- ter he has practically sized up a most important ssue, sentence a 17-year-old lad prison for 13 years. sven though was declared guilty of mane slaughter sounds unusual. Through the columns of the daily press have come reports covering ac- tivity during the last few months of great building projects. A number of these large structures have been going up in Toronto but elsewhere also. Along with these surveys have been feports of accidents, fatal acei- dents wherein two or three have gone to their deaths through the lack of care on either their own parts or the parts of the builders, It is a des- pieable circumstance when men's ives are snuffed out in peaceful trade and commerce such as happened on two occasions in Toronto recently when scaffoldidg broke or fixtures weren't rigid. * vx We found out the other day just what it was that ia missed in n eo of the tea-kettle. Either the kettle lee lef on 94 stove Hons enough in every day rush, or that the kettle misses the old chimney side where it used to sit and purr like a cat while the guests waited, yes waited, for it to boil, "o0 Barber--Haven't | shaved you be- fore? Customer--No. in France, I got those scars * ¥% 9 Pat was hired in a lumber office. A friend of the boss's decided to have some fun with the new hand when Pat was left in charge of the office with instructions to take all orders which might come in, Going. to a nearby store, the proprietor's pal calls up: "Hello! Is this the East Side Lum- "Send me up 1000 knot holes." "What's that?" "One thousand knot holes." "Well, now ain't that a shame! We are just out of them. Sold them all to the brewery." "To the brewery? What do they want with them?" ' "They use them for bungholes in barrels!" . a Friend--"So0 this is' the only room you could find, right beside the railroad track. It can't be pl t( trains ke so." Jones--"It isn't their smoking | Mind so much. It's their choo. ud * ¢ 8 Well, old Ren's convinced, He saw a robin trying to weather the heavy storm yesterday, and was just about to sprinkle some salt on its tail when it became suspicious and flew away, Heppy bird, Renrut, [Bis of Humor - LUCKY TO GET A WIFE WHO W HOW KNE Tom--Well, Jim, I can tell you're a married man, all right. No more holes in your socks, Jim--No, sir. One of the first things my wife taught me was how to darn 'em.--Fun, HANDS WITHOUT ARMS Los Angeles per: "A ge! paper: though he is, Charles Vulek, 65 years of age, has made such success that he has $4,000 in five different banks where he can readily lay hands on it." Pretty good trick for an armless man, if he can do it.--Sun, HORRIBLE THOUGHT When the young husband came in from business he found his wife cry- ing. Darling" he exclaimed, anxious- ly, "what ever's the matter?" "Oh, Wilfred," she sobbed, "I~I'm sure baby's going to be a horrid, rough prize-fighter when he grows up Jook~look how he clenches his sts!" ; TUNING IN GRANDPA Grandpa was in his arm- chair and emitting sounds that might have come from a combination mule and buzzsaw. As mother entered the room she saw Bobby twisting one of Grandpa's vest buttons. "What are you doing?" she #isked, "You know you mustn't disturb "I'm mot 'sturbing him," was the reply. "I was just tryin' to tune him in on something different from what he's. givin' us." --~Radio News, GOD'S. PLAN . PERFECTED -- This shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; Af- ter those days saith the Lod, f win put my law in their iow ris, and write it in their hearts: will be their God, and hey shall my people.~Jeremiah 31:33, RAYER--Write Thy new flaw whos my heart, Thine own blest law of love, . regard to the| co THE OSHAWA DAILY TIMES, SATURUAY, MARCH 9, 1929 = | ik Bours By James W. Barton, M.D. WHAT EMOTIONAL DISTURB- ANCES CAN DO (Registered in accordance with the pyright Act), One of the distressing occurren- ces of the last flu epidemic was the number of individuals who faithfully nursed or waited on afflicted loved ones, and then after the loved one was out of danger, they themselves took the flu and many passed away, The natural conclusion of course is that they worked so hard to save their loved ones that they undermine ed their strength and so had not the resistance to successfully fight the flu when they themselves were attacked. Now while this is true there was another factor that entered into it, that is not generally recogrized. Although these individuals worked hard physically, there was also the tremendous anxiety and worry about the patient, and this anxiety and worry was a big factor in undermin- ng their resistance, rs. Heilig and Hoff reported some' experimental work in three wo- men who were troubled frequently with "fever blisters" about mouth, These fever blisters oceurred after any unpleasant emotional experience. They hypnotized these patients, sug- gested to them an unpleasant emo- tional experience, and at the same time suggested to them that the fever blisters would occur on their lips, In each of these cases the fever blisters occurred within forty-eight hours. Hypuotizing them and suggesting the attack of fever blisters, but not suggesting the unpleasant emotional experience, failed to bring on the attack of fever blisters." They tested out the blood for its power to fight harmful organisms in the normal state, and two or three hours after the emotional disturbance there was a redu tn r of the blood to fight harmful organs isms, They conclude hat the natin al defence of the blood to infection is lowered by unpleasant emotional ex- periences. . We can now understand why some individuals who have undergone per- 1ods of grief and sorrow fall easy victims to illness. Their emotional disturbances have weakened their powers of resistance, New Salary Revisions Now Benefit Women Honor Graduates Windsor, Ont, March 9.--Women honor graduates, who formerly started teaching at a minimum of $2,100 annual salary and advance' the rate of $17 5 + henceforth start, as do the men honor graduates, at ». vance to $3.50 graduates, will start. at $2,300 and advance to $3,400. be effective from the start of the present year, will result in $100 in- creases being granted to approxi. mately 15 women teachers who have been receiving the former maximum salary. The revision is the first in the story of the technical school, which was instituted in 1923, Boy | co gfe These salary revisions, which witl | Prepared by Rev Clarence Wilson DD, Rr Commission an Bvangelism of Fedens! Counal of the Churches of Chmst in = Amemce - Sopynght1929 Topic "LENT AND MY CHURCH" Memory Verse for Saturday "But if ye have respect to per- |: sons ye commit sins" (James 2:9), (Read: James 2: 1 to 9). . MEDITATION: The Carpenter's Son had access to the society of the rich and educated people of His time, but He chose His inti. mats among the lowly. day, as he tells us, not many people of social distinction touna their way into the church. It is most unfortunate for any church that it should become an exclusive church or that its sympathies should be alienated from those whol abor and are heavy laden, Whatever my own condition let. me seek an especial friendship with God's poor. With the lowly is wisdom, They have more to give me than I them, PRAYER: Most gracious Fath- er, who hast made of one blood all nations of men, may we never har- den our hearts against any, but grant us an universal charity to- wards all men, Let Thy laws be written in our hearts, May the In Paul's | 'MAKES STUDY OF OLD ONTARIO HOMES Taronto, Ont, March Sesuing out beauty of architectural detail an composition Prof. Arthur, of the University of Toronto has been en- ged for some time in photograph- ng and making measurement of houses in Ontario, and he is anxious that those who know of "worth while" houses off the beaten track would communicate with him, 1840 was about the last year in which the good old Colonial tradition was given .| concrete form by workmen who took delight in their trade. Professor Arthur lecturing at the Art Gallery, said that of all the houses in Tor- onto mentioned in_ Robertson's "Landmarks" only 12 remain, By means of slides, the .best of a --] the beautiful 61d houses to be: found all over Ontario were illustrated} he deprecated the changing ot wa Son sashing from J e to SH Eat e and he a , Guabiy and for the Fret-saw decoration which ran riot in the Province when old | mills began turning out cheap mae terial, Describing his adventures in photo- graphy he told of battles with screen oors, which spoiled old porticoes, and which the house owner naturally was loth to see removed, He spoke of one thrifty soul who said her cot tage could not be photographed une less she had ten dollars in hand. "While 1 expostulated and argued with her at the back door," he said, "My assistant at the gate took the photograph." : rope Foriong s@ 8. F EVERSON, Local Manager Private Win frst 11 King Strest Bast, Oshaws « Above CPR. Ofiee Phos 148 sed 144 Biggar, Turner & Crawford Stock and Bond Brokers ESTABLISHED 1003 mind which was in Christ esus be in each one that we may have a true affection for all Thy children, Amen, --from "Daily Devotions," Not His Line Everything was ready, and the stage manager rubbed his hands in eager anticipation. He took one swift look around, and then nodded for the curtains to go up, but the man whose duty it was to attend to this took no notice, "Now, then, wake up, you!" shout. ed the manager hoarsely, "Every- thing's ready. Run up that curtain." The man standing near the curtain- raising apparatus scowled darkly. "Run up the curtain yourself!" he replied heatedly, "I am a stagehand, not a blinkin' squirrel." | Members Toronto Stock Exchange Associate Members New York Curb Market Direct Private Wires to New York and Toronto Quotations Hoarded on New York, Toronto, Montreal and Standard Mining Exchanges Enquiries and Correspondence Solicited OSHAWA OFFICE Telephone 2600-1 Alger Building, Opposite Post Office F. G. CARSWELL, Manager Partners T. A. Richardson Elly Marks Frank O'Hearn Cenosha Hotel F. O'HEARN & CO. Direct Private Wires to Principal Markets throughout Canada and United States. Resident Manager, C. N. HENRY Members Standard Stock and Mining Exchange Chicago Board of Trade Winnipeg Grain Exchange New York Produce Exchange (Ass'te) Offices at 'Toronto New York Owen Sound Oshawa OSHAWA Phone 2700 THE GASPE OBHAWA. rcs mene ws, = FROM WINDSOR TO COAST Dominion-Trained Experts Each of these may be identifi VER 400 modem tire shops -- leagued sogether to give expert, uniform inks to the motoring public. They cover practically every city and town in Ontario and Quebec. was selected as the most up-to-date in its locality. Bach by the uniform color scheme of orange and blue. Each bears the Dominion Tire Depot sign. Theis owners have taken an intensive course of training in the Dominion Tire Factory. fa Theis work is not only to repair tires, but to prevent serious rouble. by & weekly outside examination of tires, and a periodic overhauling, inside and out, several times a year. : Begin this week. 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